Ornithological Field Diaries of A. Graham Brown - Diary #3

I took two days of the Easter week-end off and, packing the car with food and sleeping paraphernalia, set off by myself for the Otways. The purpose was as much photographic as for birds but the weather was against me…
This is an excerpt from the third Australian field diary produced between 1947 and 1957 by Arthur Graham Brown, a man who would later become the president of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union (RAOU) and an Honorary Associate of the National Museum of Victoria.
Graham Brown's diaries are rich in descriptive narrative and are dotted with photographs and hand-drawn maps. They are an invaluable record of the species he encountered on his many field expeditions.
For more information about A. Graham Brown, see:

Obituaries Australia: Brown, Arthur Graham (1919–1982)
Encyclopedia of Australian Science: Brown, Arthur Graham (1919 - 1982)
Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 , Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001, pp 492.
This expedition of 166 tasks is fully transcribed and validated.